A SUPERB LATE-19th/EARLY-20th CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM COMPIL...

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£2,800

A SUPERB LATE-19th/EARLY-20th CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM COMPILED BY THE HON. Mrs. IRMA BAILEY (nee COZENS-HARDY)
Bound in purple suede, containing a fascinating array of single autographs and autographed correspondence, including Joseph and Neville Chamberlain, Sir Winston and Clementine Churchill, Stanley Baldwin and David Lloyd George, Walter Hines Page, British Admirals John Fisher and David Beatty, Admiral William Sims of the U.S. Navy, British Statesman George Curzon, Viceroy of India, Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner in Egypt, Field Marshall Douglas Haig on General Headquarters of British Armies in France stationary dated Nov. 30th 1918, Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Dawson on Buckingham Palace Lord Chamberlain's Office stationary; two envelopes addressed to His Royal Highness Prince George in the hands of Princess Mary and Queen Mary, two autographed letters from Charlotte Knollys on Marlborough House stationary, various correspondence addressed to Field Marshal Sir Linton Simmons including an envelope with the wax seal of Lord Kitchener and letters from Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne dated 20th Feb. 1870 and Field Marshal Earl Roberts on Commander in Chief black-edged stationary dated 6th April 1907; General Beauvoir de Lisle on Cavalry Club embossed notepaper; a letter addressed to Lady Simmons from Empress Eugenie of France on Farnborough Hill black-edged stationary, Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice Marchioness of Lansdowne on monogrammed stationary addressed Bowood, Calne, Wiltshire, a letter on Gloucester House, Park Lane stationary signed George (presumably Prince George, Duke of Cambridge), Cecil Rhodes, Princess Margaret of Sweden, autographed notes from authors E.F. Benson, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan, King Edward VIII (then as Prince, on King George's Jubilee Trust Stationary)

Provenance: The Honourable Mrs. Irma Bailey was the daughter of Baron Cozens-Hardy and his wife Constance. She was married to Major Frederick Marshman Bailey (1882-1967), British Political Officer.